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There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. - Mario Savio, Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

My favorite speech was produced for a fitting cause: as one of the leaders of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio helped organize a series of demonstrations against the administration rules against political speech and constraining the academic freedom of faculty. While the Marxist tones of the speech usually put-off about half of the political spectrum, I believe in these times most can agree that there are some causes which require one to hold one’s ground, even if that simply means using your words to protest the restrictions against using them.